The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-05
NOTED CARTOONISTS.
A LIST OF ARTISTS WHO ARE SAID
TO INFLUENCE PUBLIC OPINION.


ers of Humorous Drawings.
The men who in New York follow in the
paths of the masters, and contribute to the
weekly press our social and political cartoons,
come to US from different sections and various
countries Frank Bellew, who signs Of 3. !"
in triangle, a tall, slight man, was born in
India. Thomast Mast, short and stumpy,
comes from the Rhine. Joseph Keppler halls
| from Vienna Woolf and HEREFORD, Gillian
and Sterner are Englishmen by birth, though
Americans by education. Thomas Worth,
Charles j. Taylor, j. A. Mitchell. w. H.
| HYDE are New Workers. James A. Wales,
Frederick Opper, Edward w. Kenlble, w.
| a. Rogers are from the west. Clam Is
Florentine. Zimmerman, who signs "Zim,"
! is native of Elnira. S. W. Van Shack,
who signs cyan" with a flourish, is at home
i'll Albany.
Frank Bellew, Thomas Worth and Michael
/ Woolf are representatives of the old school of
caricature They take us back to the Vanity
Fair and Yankee Doodle days. They treat
of life somewhat in the manner of Cruik-
! shank. Fathers of family, meek daugh ters,
brokers, street urchins look out at us from
Bellows cartoons. Csten slovenly in his
workmanship, and not i'll the spirit of the
! time, Bellew is yet generally fecund, quick,
| effective
Thomas Worth, who is now connected
with Texas Siftings, produces quite as much
'0-day as he did twen6y years ago. He is
very ready at Selling All idea, but he sketches
it rather than works it out. Conventional
when treating political subjects, he is in his
! clement when he tackles TURTLES who chew
and smoke, negroes who hold skinny horses
and say incongruous things, musicians who
| produce much noise and little harmony,
| hotel clerks, low life swells, tramps. His
drawing is bold. He began his artistic
career when quite young on blotters and
| hymn books and much against parental
wishes.
When young man, Michael Knoedler i'll
PRODUCED him to Edwin Forrest. The car
tUonist only drew a caricature of the ira
gedian, and Knoedler showed it to him. "Is
the fellow made" roared Forrest. ''You
don't mean to tell me have such legs, such
headi Look at the muscles in my arm, i'll
my neckI" Forrest proved once again that
he hadn't the slightest sense of humor, and
though the cartoon sold far and wide at the
time he never could see the point always
considered it all execrable likeness.
Michael Woolf delights i'll child life. He
illustrates capitally its amusing imitation of
grown people, its witty sayings, its uncon-
scious knowledge of human nature. Sub
tract the exaggeration-which is the carica-
y
are drawn toward this man who understands
them so well.
III the work of Thomas Mast there is
trace of Cruikshank His style may not be
acceptable to the sticklers for the grammar
of art, but it is his own. and he has made it
popular with the crowd. He scored his great
hit, is known, about the period The Times
began its crusade against the Tammeny
ring. Every one remembers old Tweed, with
A. IL
paunch, as represented by Mast. Mast has
no IghtnesS of touch, defines of hand.
His pencil does not trot, but plods. His PEG
pie all move slowly, many clunsiy.
1t was about ten years ago when peopl
began to tire of the black and white cartoons
that Joseph Keppler stepped in with Puck
and gave them colored cartoons. His draw
ing, FROM the very first, was correct easy.
fearless; his manner large; his color brilliant.
Looking over his work, it may be said tia
he is successful a political rather than
social cartoonist. His gentlemen do no
stand well, sit well, dress we'll His women
are often coarse. But his cartoons of poll
ticians, of high or low degree, have individ
uality and expression, are excellent, reco2
nizable reproductions of the originals.
Prompted by the success of Keppler's week
ly, James A Wales, tall and portly, became
the leading spirit of Judge, rival in the
same style, but of opposite political faith. 1t
is evident that he appeals to the masses s,Ilt
does not care for the judgment of the critical
Original in his ideas, bold in their execution
he aims to be strong and often succeeds onl,
in being vulgar. The types which he catche
best generally taken from the slums.
Wales works at short notice and rapidly.
If Wales was formerly on Judge and H.;
recently done some cartoons for Puck, so Gil
lam, tall slender with keen, intelligent eyes
originally Puck, and is now, under
the new management, the head of the staff
Judge. Gillian conceives his own subjects
but he is not always happy in the way he
ecutes them. His figures often wooder
his faces often have jaundice or an attack
the browns; his grouping is often huddled
OF the artists who have gathered aroum
Keppler Wales and Gillian, Charles j. Tay
lor and E. Zimmerman are by far the mos: |
noteworthy. Both these men have a larg, !
way of treating a subject, are correc! |
draughtsmen without seeming cramped by |
rules, put movement into the beings of their
creation, and have abundant invention. Nor
must we forget tall, gaunt A. B. Frost, who
is an occasional contributor to Puck and who
in this and other papers has made hundreds
and thousands laugh at their own folly.
When J. A. Mitchell who had received his
education in Boston and in Paris, founded
Life few years ago he did so ostensibly to
counterfeit the snobbishnesS of certain circles
in society, to attack Anglomania and num-
Der of other manias, and to protest against
the glare of his colored cartoon contempt
raries But his models were decidedly foreign
and the execution was amateurish The
drawings of Mitchell, especially his young
women and cherubs, are now full of techni-
cal skill, grace and spirit w. H HYDE who |
does considerable work for Harper's Bazaar
and who has exhibited water colors, is very !
clever in his representation of tete-a-tete
conversations No one can do society
gathering, little group behind the scenes, a
promenade better than W. S. W. Van
Schaick. He is pupil of Gerome and skill
ful with the brush as well as the pencil. Few
equal Albert E. Sterner in picturing fash
ionable party in box at the theatre; a knot
of well dressed club men in the lobby; women
who give a listless attention to the play,
whisper, stroke their gloves; men who smile
the regulation society smile or stare with well
trained indifference
Some of the comic head and tail pieces of
Oliver HEREFORD and his Illustrations in the
text are often apt and effective But the
figures of McVicar strike me as stiff and con-
as those of a tailor's fashion plate,
and Atwood has not made much artistic